Global Patent Index - EP 1262106 B1

EP 1262106 B1 20040107 - Extruded expanded cereal shaped as an array of touching balls

Title (en)

Extruded expanded cereal shaped as an array of touching balls

Title (de)

Kochextrudiertes, gepufftes Getreideprodukt in Form einer Ansammlung sich berührender Bällchen

Title (fr)

Céréale expansée par extrusion sous forme d'un réseau de boules accolées

Publication

EP 1262106 B1 20040107 (EN)

Application

EP 02018474 A 20000323

Priority

  • EP 02018474 A 20000323
  • EP 00201059 A 20000323
  • EP 99201367 A 19990430

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP1262106A2] An expanded cereal in particular a breakfast cereal that has the overall shape of an array of touching balls, for example up to 12 balls or more, is obtainable by cooking-extruding-expanding a thermoplastic mass that exits an extrusion outlet as a bundle of separate parallel strands to obtain a bundle of strands of expanded thermoplastic substance which stick together, and cutting the bundle of strands at the extrusion outlet into a slice that forms the array of touching balls which stick together. <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

A23P 1/14; A23L 1/18; A21C 11/16

IPC 8 full level

A21C 11/16 (2006.01); A23L 1/00 (2006.01); A23L 1/18 (2006.01); A23P 1/12 (2006.01); A23P 1/14 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A21C 11/16 (2013.01); A23L 7/17 (2016.07); A23P 30/34 (2016.07)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 1262106 A2 20021204; EP 1262106 A3 20030115; EP 1262106 B1 20040107; DE 20023077 U1 20021128; DK 1051922 T3 20030610; DK 1262106 T3 20040517; EP 1051922 A1 20001115; EP 1051922 B1 20030312

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 02018474 A 20000323; DE 20023077 U 20000323; DK 00201059 T 20000323; DK 02018474 T 20000323; EP 00201059 A 20000323